By placing prerecorded robo-calls to Hoosier consumers who had joined the Do Not Call list, an Indianapolis telephone solicitor violated multiple telephone privacy laws, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller said. Zoeller on Friday filed suit against the telephone solicitor, Otis Thomas of 3011 North Gladstone Avenue, Indianapolis, seeking a permanent injunction and thousands of dollars…
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FBI probes were improper, Justice says
Jerry Markon reports: The FBI improperly opened and extended investigations of some U.S. activist groups and put members of an environmental advocacy organization on a terrorist watch list, even though they were planning nonviolent civil disobedience, the Justice Department said Monday. A report by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine absolved the FBI of the most…
Facebook fraud a ‘major issue’
Josh Halliday reports: Hacking of Facebook accounts to scam people out of money has become a “major issue” for the social networking site, its head of European public policy, Lord Richard Allan, has told the Guardian. As a result the site is implementing new ways of detecting when its users’ accounts have been hacked, and…
Would Monetizing Our Personal Data Ease Privacy Concerns?
Kashmir Hill writes: One of the big issues at the heart of the privacy debate is data aggregation and how companies profit from it. In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, fifth grader Jenna elegantly described what bothered her about advertisers tracking her online activity, “I don’t like everyone knowing what I’m doing…